Psychology, Mental Health and Distress

I would thoroughly recommend this book to any student of psychology and believe it should be required reading for all doctors who decide to specialise in psychiatry. The tide is turning away from traditional psychiatry in regard to the categorisation of mental illness, speeded up by the publishing of the dire DSM-5 in 2013. Cromby’s book demonstrates that formulation trumps diagnosis as a way of understanding distress and offers a valid alternative to labelling an individual with a fictitious ‘disease’ invented (by and large) to serve the pharmaceutical industry, rather than providing genuine help to the distressed individual.Thoroughly recommended.

A bargain used book buy, wanted as part of my MSc studies, very pleased.

book is good but I was concerned that it could just have been a 'borrowed' library book as there was no marking to show that it had been decommissioned

This book offers very clear information on a fresh and emerging perspective in Psychology. There are balanced arguments and lots of research used to support concepts.

A profound and incisive account of the limitations of the biomedical model of metal health, and a thorough case for a Biopsychosocial paradigm, that includes sufferers' accounts of their experiences of mental distress, and the fact of their own agency and social meanings in their diagnosis and treatent. An invaluable perspective on mental wellbeing, distress, and the therapist as an agentic part of the journey to a successful outcome, not simply a disassociated facilitator with a white coat and the DSM.

Great book, but a word of warning, it's definitely not for beginners - this book assumes a certain level of pre-understanding.

This book takes an alternative approach to exploring mental health - basing chapters on problems and their solutions rather than 'diagnoses'. Well writen and clear, with a strong evience base.

Clear and concise. Gets to grips with what some might find challenging perceptions of MH